Ameritech Corp. v. E. Michael McCann in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Milwaukee County

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• explaining that “individual (or personal) capacity suits do not seek to conform the State’s conduct to federal law; rather, such suits seek recovery from the defendant personally”
• setting forth limited exceptions to a state's sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment
• “[I]ndividual capacity suits do not implicate the Eleventh Amendment’s protections, making an exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity obviously unnecessary.”
• “lawsuit[s] against a state official in his or her individual capacity . . . do not seek to conform the State’s conduct to federal law; rather, such suits seek recovery from the defendant personally.”
• suit only brought against the state official, not against the state
• “[I]ndividual capacity suits do not implicate the Eleventh Amendment's protections[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).